Chapter Fourteen

"Does Jessica know Jason isn't her father?"

"No, but she calls him Jason."

"When are you going to tell her?"

"She's three, she won't understand."

"She'll understand that Jason isn't her father. Her hero," He disgustedly spat the word. "Is."

"She won't understand why people will hate her."

"What?" He asked confused.

"Jason already hates her. When this comes out the McMahons will hate her especially Linda and Marissa. My mother will, too."

"That's bullshit and you know it." He said angrily. "I loathe your mother for many reasons but she loves Jessie. Shane as much as I hate to admit it loves her too. Vince practically worships the ground the child walks on. Linda will not hate her because she is her granddaughter. She might hate you but never Jessie." He bluntly stated. "Marissa is the wild card. She might or might not hate her. Again she'll probably hate you. Do I even have to address Stephanie? We love that little girl like she was our own. So don't be placing the blame on other people for you not being truthful to her and everyone else."

"Do you still love her like she was yours now that you know that she's Shane's bastard?" She whispered.

"Never once did I, nor will I, ever call her that. You shouldn't either." He said outraged. "To answer your question, yes I still love her. It's not her fault that her father is Shane. It's yours. How did you kept this a secret? Did you think about what would happen when someone found out? How could you keep this from me? How could Shane let people believe that his daughter belonged to another man. A man that has been his enemy for years."

"Stephanie has known from the start that Jessica was Shane's."

"She's what?" His anger grew with each second this conversation continued.

"She has known that Jessica was Shane's." She repeated. "She knew about our affair. She knew about Shania. She knew about everything that I've told you tonight except for my marital problems."

"Who else knows?" He gritted his perfect white teeth.

"That Shane is Jessica's father?"

"Yes."

"I've told Shawn, Jay, Dave, and Kip. I have no idea who Shane has told. "

"Let me get this fucking straight." He said eerily calm. "Two of my best friends and a thorn in my side knew before me?"

"I told Dave when we, well, I was drunk. I'm not for sure if he was drunk or not. He has a frustrating high tolerance to alcohol. Which you already know."

"And Shawn?"

"I needed someone to confide in who wouldn't judge me too harshly." She tried to ease the betrayal. "Or tell anyone what I had said to him."

"Why didn't you come to me?"

"You know that answer." She looked at him pointedly. A guilty look momentarily crossed his features.

"Stephanie?"

"Please, she watches us like a hawk. She doesn't trust us around each other."

"With good reason." He snorted. She glared. "How does jackass know?"

"Is Jay or Kip, the jackass?"

"Monty." He replied refusing to call him by his nickname and stage name.

"He was there for me when no one else was. I had just ended the affair. Jay and his then girlfriend and now on-again-and-off-again wife were arguing." A look of annoyance crossed Paul's face as she talked. She paused and commented on his annoyance. "I, personally don't care that you two hate each other. He's my best friend and no one but he or me will change that."

"Why didn't you come to me?" He asked hurt that his sister had chosen his best friends and worse of enemies to confide in yet she couldn't face him.

"Because you were recovering from your quad injury. I didn't want you to do something stupid and re-injure yourself in the process."

"Why not Adam? You two have always been close."

"We weren't talking. He was furious with me."

"Why?"

"It's something between him and me that does not concern you." She said defensive. He rolled his eyes.

"Amy?"

"She had her own drama with Matt and Jeff."

"Trish? Lisa? Torrie? Joanie"

"Trish's career was peaking. Joanie's career had already ended by then thus cutting all ties with me. Lisa was training in OVW. I wasn't as close to Torrie then as I am now. Kip was the only one there."

"Stephanie?"

"Stephanie was the reason I ended the affair in the first place." She stated bitterly. "Sisters before lovers. That has been our code since we were ten."

"What?" He asked as his curiosity perked while his feeling of betrayal lightened.

"She convinced me that it wasn't healthy to continue a relationship with Shane while I was pregnant."

"It's not healthy to have a relationship period with him. Have you forgotten that one of your best friends is married to him?"

"No, I haven't." She replied starkly.

"Who's the other guy?"

"Other guy?" She asked startled by the subject change and the question.

"Yes, other guy." He looked at her awaiting her answer but he received silence instead of a name. "You've admitted to having another affair."

"No I did not."

"Katie, look you said that there is a chance that you might be pregnant. Neither Jason nor Shane are the father. So who is it?"

"There's a small chance that Shane's the father." She finally admitted to him but more importantly herself.

"Stop playing word games with me. You want my help or you wouldn't have told me any of this." He rationalized. "I can't help you unless you're willing to cooperate with me. Tell me the truth. Who is he."

"William." She whispered. He shook his head in disbelief and confusion. Did he know a William? He was overwhelmed and couldn't think straight. He decided it was time to leave before he said something that he would never be able to take back.

Frustrated beyond limit he pressed the 'open door' button and stepped out. Once on the floor below his suite and out of the elevator, he turned to look at Kathleen. He looked at her in anger, confusion, pity but most of all unconditional love.

A/N

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